Tom Diehl wrote: ...
They do but nothing I can find in there tells me if it is real hardware raid or fake raid. Adaptec for example, also says that their fake raid cards are comaptable with Linux but they do not clearly specify if it is fake raid or true hardware Raid. AFAIK the Adaptec cards are all fake Raid. and some of ServeRaid cards were also based on the Adaptec chipset and hence Fake Raid.
My IBM x3500 machines have this card:
# lspci ... 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 02) ...
I'm not quite sure if this also has an IBM serveraid name.
I don't think it is fakeraid; setting up raid devices can take place at bios level, the buildup of the RAID5 or RAID6 volumes can run without any drivers loaded.
If this is fakeraid I would like a clear definition of the term fakeraid.
Mogens